This stunning collection features the Feydeau farce Keep an Eye on Amelie (1978), Ibsen’s Ghosts (1987) with Kenneth Branagh, Michael Gambon and Natasha Richardson, a version of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard 1981, as well as Talking to a Stranger (1966) described as the first authentic masterpiece written directly for television.

This selection of classic television plays also features Dench alongside Norman Wisdom and Fulton Mackay in Going Gently (1981) and Robert Hardy in Michael Frayns award-winning Make and Break.

Denchs later work is represented by Absolute Hell (1991) a role for which she won an Olivier Award and Can You Hear Me Thinking? (1990) in which she starred opposite her husband Michael Williams.